Westview Healthcare Center

Even though this nursing home's overall score was terrible, it actually didn't perform as badly in nursing. We awarded it a B- for this area. Nursing grades are heavily correlated with nurse staffing levels. This place provides 4.1 hours of nursing care per patient daily. This is better than average. In calculating our nursing grades, we apply additional weight to hours performed by more highly trained nurses such as registered or licensed nurses. Finally, we also considered quality-based metrics in determining our nursing scores. This nursing home was above average in several of the major areas we focus on, with good scores for minimizing its residents' major falls and pressure ulcers. These areas are often accurate indicators of the quality of nursing care offered.

We were also surprised to discover that this facility earned a reasonably solid short-term care rating in our assessment. We awarded it a grade of B- in this category. Short-term care ratings are vital for individuals requiring rehabilitation. Rehabilitation usually mandates more highly-skilled nursing. This includes a broad scope of services, ranging from registered nurses to physical and respiratory therapists, as well as other forms of therapy. Unfortunately, we found that this nursing home provided fewer physical therapist and registered nurse hours per resident than most other facilities. The last datapoint we looked at in this area is the number of residents that returned home from the facility. This nursing home performed better in this statistic. It performed better than most facilities in this area with 54.8 percent of its patients returning home. For most facilities, fewer than half of their short-stay residents are able to return home.

We were also surprised to find that this nursing home received a reasonably solid long-term care rating this year. We gave it a grade of C in that category. In our long-term care assessment, we focus on the sheer volume of care provided by a facility, along with a few qualitative measures. In addition to assessing the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we analyzed the number of residents vaccinated against pneumonia. This facility administered the vaccine to 96.74952 percent of its residents, which is better than the vast majority of nursing homes. Finally, this nursing home was able to limit hospitalizations. With just 1.2 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, this facility has fewer hospitalizations than the majority of nursing homes.

Turning the final category of inspections, we gave this facility a grade of just D for our inspection category. This proved to be this facility's weakest category. We take a poor grade in this category very seriously. We weigh several aspects of a nursing home's inspection report in calculating these inspection grades. One of those factors is deficiencies. We would pay close attention to the severity of those deficiencies. This particular facility was hit with 3 deficiencies by government inspectors. The only positive thing we found is that none of the deficiencies were in the categories that suggest that they created a threat to resident health or safety. Finally, this facility was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. We would not recommend this facility under any circumstance.